INTERNATIONAL: CHINA PILGRIMAGE - Dogen and Hanshan Sites

Travel to China with Sensei Kaz Tanahashi and Sensei Peter Levitt April 18 - May 3, 2017. Visit Tiantong Monastery where the great thirteenth-century Japanese Zen Master Dogen was trained by his teacher Rujing. We also visit the nearby cave where the legendary hermit-poet Hanshan lived and used the cave walls to write his poems.

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Vice Abbot of Upaya, Beate Stolte-Overtheil reviews the history of philosophical views of human happiness starting with the Greeks, through the Middle Ages, and into modern philosophers and even neuroscience research . She describes several experimental studies to illustrate the influence of expectation upon the sense of happiness and then distinguishes between pleasure and true serenity or contentment.